Residential and Foster Care Placements for Children in Care Provider Collaboration Event “You Said, ...

Leicestershire County Council’s Children and Family Services would like to invite you to the 2nd Procurement Solution Collaborative Event “You Said, We Heard” with regards to the Council’s provision of Residential and Foster Care placements from 2020 and beyond.

Our current sub-regional procurement solution (EMRCF) will end as of 31st January 2020 and there will not be a future consortia approach in the East Midlands therefore we are progressing with a local procurement solution commencing 1st February 2020.

It is planned that any approach will be procured in two phases with the initial focus on:
- Residential placements for children in care
- Foster care placements for children in care
Details on future categories will be available at a later date and communicated in due course.

LCC are passionate about working with providers to co-design this solution; understand what a collaborative approach could/should look like and address some of the key barriers and challenges that occur with the current approach.

We plan that this event will be the second of three Collaborative Events(the first event was held I July 2019) where we are committed to developing a systemic approach to providing good quality local provision for local children at the right time and we cannot do this without you!

The second event is being held on Friday 6th September 2019 at a local venue within the county area. Further information about the venue will be provided along with confirmation of delegate places.
There will be two identical sessions run on this date for you to choose at your convenience:

- Session 1: 10.00am - 12.00pm
- Session 2: 1.00pm – 3.00pm

If your organisation would like to send a delegate(s) to this session, please respond via email to CFSCommissioningSupport@leics.gov.uk by Wednesday 4th September 2019 with the following information:
- Delegate Name
- Role in organisation
- Email address
- Contact telephone
- Special access requirements (if any)
- Session Preference (if any)

Places are initially limited to a maximum of one delegate per organisation and will be allocated on a “first come first served” basis. Depending on availability we may able to offer extra spaces.